Soutiere v. Soutiere

Defendant husband appeals from a final divorce order of the Chittenden Family Court, alleging error in the court’s admission of expert testimony on battered-woman syndrome, and also challenging the court’s property and maintenance awards in favor of plaintiff wife. We affirm.

Plaintiff and defendant married in February 1966. The parties remained together for twenty-seven years, and raised two daughters. During the marriage, defendant was the primary income-provider, working at IBM for twelve years before taking early retirement in 1992. In his last full year of employment in 1991, defendant…